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Apr 24, 2014 · In this 1818 essay, John Adams forcefully asserts that the American Revolution was not, in fact, the war for independence. Instead, he suggested the war was a culmination of the real revolution.
John Adams, the sage of colonial America, raised three questions in 1815: "Who shall write the history of the American Revolution? Who can write it? Who will ever be able to write it?" Page Smith, an eminent 20th century historian, has answered the challenge of these questions by producing a mam-moth two-volume tome.* It is a formi-
This first volume contains seventy-two letters, essays, public messages, and drafts written by John Adams between 1755 and 1775, along with extensive selections from his diary for this period and selected passages from his unfinished autobiography recalling his life up to 1775.
The second of two volumes gathering the essential writings of one of the towering figures of the American Revolution traces John Adams’s career from his leading role in the debate over independence (he was “our Colossus on the floor,” remembered Thomas Jefferson), to his tireless efforts to establish the fledgling government of the United ...
Adams made some important contributions during the Revolutionary War, serving as a legislator, an organiser of war material, a peace negotiator and a foreign diplomat. He was twice sent to Europe, first to secure a military alliance with the French and then to seek financial support from the Dutch.
Although the patriots took their efforts seriously—John Adams (writing as “Novanglus”) saw it to engage Leonard (writing as “Massachusettensis”) point-by-point in extended newspaper exchanges—the loyalists had waited too long to present their side to the colonial public.
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Adams almost single-handedly averted a war in 1798 between France and the United States after the XYZ Affair. But he also signed into law the legislation known as the Alien and Sedition Acts, forced through Congress by the Federalists to tighten control over immigrants and anyone who criticized the government.
